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The subject illustrates Keats' poem 'Isabella' or 'The Pot of Basil', derived from a story by Boccaccio.One of four studies in Birmingham's collection for the painting 'Lorenzo and Isabella' in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1849.
- Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
John Everett Millais |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
Monogram (pencil). |
Monogram |
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Written |
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In pencil. |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation |
71 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1911-12 - 1912-03 |
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Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period |
219 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29 |
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Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings & Drawings |
35 |
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
1955-07 - 1955-10 |
35 |
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea |
1955 - 1955 |
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Millais, PRB, PRA |
233 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1967-01-14 - 1967-03-05 |
233 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
1967-03-15 - 1967-04-30 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Women |
13 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1985-10-09 - 1986-01-02 |
13 |
Stoke-on-Trent Museum & Art Gallery |
1986-09-13 - 1986-10-19 |
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John Keats |
no.224a |
Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Wordsworth Trust) |
1995-07-14 - 1995-06-30 |
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Praraffeliten |
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Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden and Stadelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt |
1973-11-23 - 1974-05-05 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
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Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery |
1976-05-01 - 1976-05-29 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd, Derby |
p. 264. |
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Millais, PRB, PRA |
Mary Bennett |
1967 |
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
p. 73. |
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John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator |
Paul Goldman |
2004 |
Lund Humphries, Aldershot |
B17 |
Provenance
James Richardson Holliday; bequeathed to City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1927. |
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